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13-letter words containing o, r, a

  • agrostologist — a person who specializes in agrostology
  • agroterrorism — the use of biological agents as weapons against agricultural and food-supply industries
  • ahistorically — In an ahistorical way.
  • ailurophiliac — Appropriate or pleasing to ailurophiles.
  • air commodore — a senior officer of the Royal Air Force and certain other air forces, of equivalent rank to brigadier in the Army
  • air core coil — having a nonmagnetic core, as one of fiber or plastic, encircled by a coil (air-core coil) or containing one or more such coils: air-core transformer.
  • air force one — the US Air Force plane used by the US president
  • air injection — injection of liquid fuel into the cylinder of an internal-combustion engine, especially a diesel, by means of a jet of compressed air.
  • air pollution — contamination of the atmosphere
  • air-condition — to apply air conditioning to
  • air-to-ground — operating between an aircraft in flight and a target on the ground
  • aircraftwoman — The female equivalent of an aircraftman.
  • aircraftwomen — Plural form of aircraftwoman.
  • airline pilot — a person who flies planes as a profession and works for a commercial airline
  • airplane mode — a setting on a phone or other mobile device that turns off Wi-Fi, cellular, and other wireless connections.
  • airport novel — People sometimes refer to long novels such as thrillers and romances that are written in a popular style as airport novels.
  • airworthiness — (of an aircraft) meeting established standards for safe flight; equipped and maintained in condition to fly.
  • albertosaurus — A giant fierce carnivorous tyrannosaurus-like dinosaur, of gemus Albertosaurus, discovered in Alberta, Canada.
  • albumin color — (in textile printing) a color fixed to a fabric by an albuminous mordant.
  • alcoholometer — an instrument, such as a specially calibrated hydrometer, for determining the percentage of alcohol in a liquid
  • alcoholometry — the process of measuring the concentration of alcohol in a liquid, such as in blood or a liquor
  • aldosteronism — high blood pressure caused by excess aldosterone in the blood and urine
  • alectryomancy — an ancient form of divination, using a rooster to select grains of food placed on letters of the alphabet.
  • aleksandropol — a former name of Gumri.
  • aleksandrovsk — a city in SE Ukraine, on the Dnieper River.
  • all manner of — If you refer to all manner of objects or people, you are talking about objects or people of many different kinds.
  • all over with — above in place or position: the roof over one's head.
  • all-important — crucial; vital
  • allegorically — consisting of or pertaining to allegory; of the nature of or containing allgegory; figurative: an allegorical poem; an allegorical meaning.
  • allelomorphic — relating to alleles
  • alligator gar — a large, heavily scaled fish, Lepisosteus spatula, with an elongated body and long snout, found mainly in shallow weedy fresh water in the southeastern U.S.
  • alligatorfish — a slender marine fish, Aspidophoroides monopterygius, of Atlantic seas, having overlapping plates covering the body.
  • alliterations — Plural form of alliteration.
  • allochromatic — Physical Chemistry. pertaining to or having photochemical properties resulting from an impurity or from exposure to radiation.
  • allotriomorph — (geology) A mineral that did not develop its otherwise typical external crystal form because of late crystallization between earlier formed crystals, typical of matrix minerals in rapidly crystallizing volcanic lavas and shallow igneous intrusions.
  • allotriophagy — (rare) Having food cravings that are different from the expected or the norm.
  • allylthiourea — thiosinamine.
  • alongshoreman — a person employed to load and unload ships
  • alonzo church — (person)   A twentieth century mathematician and logician, and one of the founders of computer science. Church invented the lambda-calculus and posited a version of the Church-Turing thesis.
  • alpha blocker — any of various substances that interfere with the action of the alpha receptors.
  • alpha orionis — Betelgeuse
  • alpha scorpii — Antares
  • alpha-blocker — any of a class of drugs that prevent the stimulation of alpha adrenoceptors, a type of receptor in the sympathetic nervous system, by adrenaline and noradrenaline and that therefore cause widening of blood vessels: used in the treatment of high blood pressure and prostatic hyperplasia
  • alphabetiform — having similarities to letters of the alphabet
  • alsike clover — a European clover, Trifolium hybridum, having pink flowers, grown in the U.S. for forage.
  • alstroemerias — Plural form of alstroemeria.
  • altered chord — a chord in which one or more notes are chromatically changed by the introduction of accidentals
  • althorp house — a mansion in Northamptonshire: seat of the Earls Spencer since 1508; originally a medieval house; altered (1787) to its present neoclassical style by Henry Holland. Diana, Princess of Wales is buried on Round Oval Island in the centre of the ornamental lake in Althorp Park
  • aluminiferous — containing or yielding aluminium or alumina
  • aluminography — algraphy.
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